Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 1, 1944

Topics

WorkAloneCreativePeopleStand

I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

Jesse Ball

LoveMeImportantMoreAlwaysHold

To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

FaithMeWorryingMeans

Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.

Robert Palmer

WorldInternetYouWillWebGet

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.

John Rhys-Davies

MyselfMeFlyWorryToo MuchGround

I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

WhyRussiaBigSureQuite

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

Rodney Brooks

ChildrenStepBagBackI CanSkin

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Ronald Fisher

DegreeHighNaturalNatural Selection

I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

MistakeQuestionsEnvironmentYou

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Mike Wilson

GoodBusinessAmazingTeamGameSee

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

BuyThingsGoingDamageMakePlayer

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Dick Cavett

AnythingSeenSenseSubtleSinister

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Dick Dale

SomeoneMeanStageHeadSideUsed

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